JoeSchmuckatelli

Oh, I will!

ZOMG!!! If you have never had Cracklin's... You are missing out. ... Rendered the suet - which, unlike bacon or beef fat is not wiggly or soft at all. It's hard and waxy. Totally did not expect that. Used the slow cooker, which worked great for the rendering. Strained it and then took the cracklins, tossed them into the skillet and added salt, pepper, garlic powder and paprika. Finished in the oven for 20 mins and left to dry on a paper towel. Pop, crunch and melt in your mouth good!

I don't disagree... But I do think that legacy hardware and along the way compromise is likely limiting the utility of the station at this point. I'd like to see a 'lessons learned' and 'the next level of science' plan put together that will utilize the current and very near future lift capability - to create the next great space station. But what I think will happen is that some company will put up a prestige piece, mostly for the 1,000 billionaires that have already checked Everest off their list... And then some stuff will get added piecemeal to that for lack of a better place to park it

Just bought a bunch of suet from a really good butcher near me. Rendering Tallow as we speak!

Better add a solar telescope as well. Or perhaps a big Gotta keep working 14.75/14.75/1/12

Maybe it's time to let that old darling go? Aside from 'what are the effects of microgravity on humans' and 'how do we keep humans healthy in space'... what really are we doing on ISS? What We Learned This Year from Space Station Science | NASA I'd certainly want one of these follow-on space stations to be a lock... but what's really the need for ISS once we have something that applies the lessons learned?

That's why we put them in Spaaace, now.

Yeah - I'd seen that but nothing more. @tater knows all kinds of stuff tho. Maybe he's seen something?

Is it a real company or just a paper-pitch? Have they built an engine?

Now that's a story I would read!

Doesn't seem to describe what ROSS will be. BiggerFasterStrongerBetter?

Oops - there is a disconnect! The thread is certainly a Vaya space thread... But the HyPr Space engine with the aerospike design is what I was asking about (referenced in your Spoiler) Or am I confused? Is Vaya and HyPr the same?

I'm still trying to figure out if AI can use telekinesis to shove air - what the possible mechanics would be. Magnetism seems odd because the percentage of iron in air is kinda low. I'd rather think that the hyperkinetic supertele AI could perceive some of the basic, fundamental structures of the universe and then pull or push itself along the ley lines in a way that air or water or space are just local conditions and to the extent that a story needs to take place in one of those... You could just have a ship be there, doing a thing

Good. Much better than flatulent aircraft. They stink!

You've lost me. Are you talking about a superpower like Superman's ability to fly? Is 'aerokinetic' like telekinetic?

. I read your response after writing what I did above... The explanation quote you provided does not seem to answer the Left to Right question... Unless I'm missing something. (because if you don't use LtoR you can get different answers??)

I think the crux of the problem is 'sentence case'. If it were written 6 _______ 2(1+2) We'd all get '1'. Thus the sentence case is what's driving the discussion. Part of my brain is also wanting to get to the part where you have 6/2(3) to get a result that asks 'what operation applies to the information in the parentheses?'... meaning you'd have to do the 6/2 first. Part of my mind still thinks the way I did it first was correct. I'd have to bug my kid's math teacher to discover the reasoning... but I do recall LtoR. (Which, as stated, was new to me).

I don't remember Left to Right being part of it when I went to school... but I was also a poor student. I did hear my kid's teacher say that LtoR is a thing.

Interesting. My initial impression wasn't that I was hearing a live recording of a crowd respectfully watching the Command Center's work. It really did sound like someone took the audio and dubbed stuff over it. I went back and listened again - and I think you're right. The stutter at the end still throws me off.

The maths guys are correct - and now I see why I got the wrong answer (1). I wouldn't use the word 'power' but rather the phrase 'on the same level' or 'in the same step'. The part I forgot is that you go left to right and also ...which is what I did - but you're supposed to remember left to right as well, and I think that actually takes priority within a level/step. So - my self analysis of my mistake was that I did follow the Parentheses First rule (1+2)=3 which left the equation as 6/2*3. In my head, I then performed the 2*3 before completing the final step, getting 6/6=1. Wrong. Because they are all 'on the same level' or 'in the same step' and written in sentence case like that... the proper way should have been to go 6/2 = 3, 3*3 =9... because of left to right priority.

Good luck with making MicroSquish do anything. No amount of common sense from the community will make a company change its policies (but apparently, absurd whining will).

I'm not a statistician, but the possibility of one of the things mentioned seems low. ...also, yeah, no one wants to room with 'that guy'.

what's with the weird audio dub of people taking pictures and odd applause?

PEMDAS says 1... but I'm the worst maths guy on these forums.

Could part of it be positional? Sure microgravity, but also the extreme cramped compartments?